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TODAY browns Mr Brown

Mr Brown is now yesterday’s news. I don’t think the TODAY editors did it out of their own volition. Maybe it was pre-emptive measure to prevent further fallout. Or perhaps it was some directive – implicit or explicit – from up above. And I don’t mean God. Whatever the excuse reason, it’s sad and pathetic. [...]

Give feedback…

… also must give solution. Mr Brown is taken to task for pointing out price increases in Today. It is not the role of journalists or newspapers in Singapore to champion issues, or campaign for or against the Government. If a columnist presents himself as a non-political observer, while exploiting his access to the mass [...]

$26 annually

Not to be outdone by Manchester United (check out the cheap sale), Singapore’s new infocomm masterplan aims at adding $26 to the nation’s GNP (or is it GDP?) per annum. Scarily, the infocomm sector currently contributes only $13 to the economy every year. This typo was in the print edition too. Spotted by Terence. Thanks!

My photo has been Today-ed!

Yesterday, an observant friend noticed a familiar photo published in TODAY. She told me that the photo looked something like this. —> I checked out TODAYonline, Friday 19 May 2006, and browsed to page 60 (pdf version). Lo and behold, my photo was used – albeit slightly cropped – in an article entitled Backyard Adventures. [...]